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Title: We've lost control of the border
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Gulker, Chris
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1978
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption reads: "This section of the Tia Juana [sic] River, guarded by a Border Patrol vehicle on the U.S. side, is where patrolmen have lost control of alien crossings". "South levy of Tijuana River flood control project. 200 yards of U.S. territory that border patrol has all but ceded to Mexicans attempting to cross border. Vehicle right center is a 'War Wagon'--4-wheel drive vehicle specially prepared to resist rock-throwing attacks from high Mexican". Photograph dated Nov. 5, 1978.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;23 x 30 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083516
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b059_f1_i15
CARL0002875205
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25607
Subject: Flood control channels--California--San Diego County
Illegal aliens--United States
Border patrol agents--United States
Four-wheel drive vehicles--California--San Diego County
United States--Boundaries--Mexico
Tijuana River (Mexico and Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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